The New Light Ch. 1

New Life

Deidara sighed and ran his fingers through his shiny, blonde hair. His life, as of now, sucked. Why did she have to break-up with him? He knew why, it was because he was being a jerk. He had yelled at her, he had hit her, but he never meant anything he had said to her. He loved her. Deidara narrowed his eyes, then again, she did call him a stupid, vain blonde and had told him he was no good, she had used him, she had cheated on him. He suddenly felt a wave of hate rush over the woman he had once been in love with. Deidara, after a few minutes, had built up so much anger that he vowed to himself to never love a single girl again. At that very moment he decided he absolutely HATED girls.

Deidara chuckled at his decision in complete satisfaction, until he heard his partner call him to get ready for his mission.

A sixteen year-old Ayumee Uchiha pleasantly ran up the streets of Konoha wearing her blonde, black streaked hair in a pony-tail. She was happy today, but that's the type of person Ayumee Takimoto Uchiha was, a happy-go-lucky sort of person with twist of sassiness in between. Unlike her elder cousin, Sasuke, whom she just gotten to meet again after 12 years of living with her mothers side of the family, she was very open, kind and warm-hearted.

At first glance, it would be hard for a person to tell that her life was ruined years ago, that her clan had been murdered, that she was hiding behind smiles. But she always tried her best to persevere through her life and always smile.

That's what Sasuke told her to do, and she had listened to him obediently. Sasuke was like her father now, he made her breakfast, looked out for her and took care for her. For this, she was eternally grateful for all of his hard work.

While running through the barren street she was currently on, she began whistling a cheerful melody, unaware that two sets of eyes looked upon her. Those eyes happen to belong to members of the Akatsuki, who just so happened to be Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki.

They had been asked by their leader to track her down, capture her and bring her back to the base. Itachi immediately agreed, he was eager to see his young cousin again, but kept it to himself.

He now found himself perched on a tree waiting for a right time to jump his cousin and drag her to the base. When Itachi and his partner had done so, he wanted to spend some time with her, and reconnect with her, which, amazingly, made him a little giddy. Actually, he had been very talkative about Ayumee to Kisame, who had been observing his attitude throughout the mission and had been noting his fast walking, his talking to himself, and his constant cravings for sweets. Itachi never ate sweets. He hated them. That's what he was doing right now, eating chocolate mini eggs while talking to himself.

Kisame chuckled; it was actually quite entertaining to see his cold-hearted partner act completely out of character for a moment. Especially when you're partner was Itachi Uchiha.

Kisame looked back at the youngest Uchiha. She had stopped dead in her tracks, but why? Kisame nudged Itachi in the arm with his elbow and pointed to Ayumee. Seeing her poise, he immediately stashed his chocolate away in his cloak, she knew that they were there.

Ayumee smirked she activated her sharingan. Itachi was here. Her elder cousin. The man who she had adored for her first five years of life, then hated for ruining it.

'Come out, come out where ever you are Itachi-baka, I don't like it when you try and hide yourself from me,' Ayumee whispered with a tune hidden in her words.

At this moment, Itachi appeared, leaning against a tree, arms crossed with a seductive smile spread wide across his lips.

"My, my, you have certainly grown," Itachi said softly with his seductive smile still plastered on his face. He began walking towards his younger cousin with his arms open wide.

"Come now, give your cousin a hug." Itachi chuckled.

"Bite me. I would rather die than hug a cold-hearted fool like you." Ayumee retorted.

Itachi stopped walking, closed his eyes and smiled, "Such dirty words for a young lady, but I guess this could be fixed, if you listen to me one more time."

In one movement, Itachi opened his eyes, with his sharingan now activated, made his cousin faint and caught her in his arms.

Itachi threw his cousin onto the cold-stone ground of the conference room of the hide-out of the Akatsuki. Ayumee was now fully awake and trying to fight off the ropes that tied her hands behind her back.

"Feisty little one isn't she?"

Came a voice at the north end of the room. Ayumee paused her wrestling match with the rope as her eyes trailed upwards to see a shadowed figure step forward along with many other figures whose lower halves were only shadowed.

"I see you completed your mission, Itachi, Kisame. Unfortunately, I have another mission for you two,"

The shadowed figure threw to the two Akatsuki members a folder file with all the information they needed for their mission.

"Leave now please. I expect you back in no less than a month."

Reluctantly, Itachi left with his partner trailing close behind him. The shadow man turned back to the small girl.

"As for you," The man stepped forward, "you will become an Akatsuki member, no complaints! You will also be living with Deidara and Sasori downstairs; they have agreed to mentor you. Any questions?

Ayumee glared at the man, since he had stepped forward, she could see, the bottom part of his face.

"No sir," she said looking down on the ground.